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Wolf Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$102k
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$190kInternational$65kHuman Services$54kFood & Nutrition$51kHealth$46kCivil Rights$37kEducation$35kArts & Culture$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE RETREAT CENTER$5,000
THE MONKS OF NORCIA FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$5,000
CLEAN WATER FOR HAITI$5,000
THE LABOURE SOCIETY$5,000
GLOBAL HEALTH PROMISE$5,000
VANCOUVER BALLET FOLKORICO$3,000
LOS NINOS PRIMEROS$3,000
SCHOLA CANTUS ANGELORUM$2,500
SAVE FIRST FINANCIAL WELLNESS$2,500
OREGON RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUN$2,500
MATER DEI RADIO$2,500
REVEREND JIM'S EDUCATION FUND$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Oregon Harbor of Hope: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS WOMAN'S SERVICES: $1k → 8%ROAD2HOPE: $2k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMAN'S SERVICES: $1k → 8%ROAD2HOPE: $2k → 8%Clackamas Womens Services: $1k → 8%Clackamas Womens Services: $1k → 8%Standupgirlcom Foundation: $5k → 14%Road2Hope: $1k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMAN'S SERVICES: $1k → 8%Clackamas Womens Services: $1k → 8%Road2Hope: $1k → 8%Standupgirlcom Foundation: $4k → 14%Road2Hope: $500 → 8%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $1k → 12%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $500 → 12%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $500 → 12%Northwest Pilot Project: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$510k · 77 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

77 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
46

Total granted

$510k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+63%

Still filing today

52%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionCivil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TL
    THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +30%
  • CW
    CLEAN WATER FOR HAITI
    6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +11%
  • GH
    Global Health Promise
    6× · 2019–2024 · $23k · revenue ×36 · 59% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • CF
    Christmas Family Al Phelan
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Action for Life Inc

Action for life promotes, upholds, and supports efforts to protect the sanctity of life from conception to natural death through education, advocacy, and prayer as well as by supporting traditional family values.

Civil Rights
2
International Catholic Jurists Forum Inc

The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…

Religion
3
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
4
International Catholic Legislators Network- Western Hemisphere

To equip dedicated Christians in public office with faith formation expert education and a global network of peers and friends

Human Services
5
Catholics for Choice

Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…

Civil Rights
6
Holy Family Catholic Clinic Ps

Provide superior, compassionate, life-affirming health care to patients of all ages, honoring the sanctity of life from conception to natural death, and supporting the culture of life.

Religion
7
Agnus Dei Foundation

The mission of AGNUS DEI FOUNDATION (ADF) is to impact the culture of life by being a champion for adoption as an alternative to abortion or single parenting for women in crisis.

Human Services
8
Life Services of Spokane

Life Services is a Christ-centered organization dedicated to the sanctity of life at conception. We offer hope, truth, medical care and support from a biblical perspective to anyone impacted by an unplanned pregnancy helping them choose…

Health
9
Servants of Mary
Religion
10
Women's Ordination Conference

Our mission is to advocate and pray for womens ordination as deacons, priests, and bishops into an inclusive and accountable roman catholic church.

Religion
11
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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12
Life Matters Worldwide

Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Rights of Abused Children; the most unlike its peers is Rev Jims Education Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 133 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
38/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES: $22,000 · OtherNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICESTHE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON: $19,920 · OtherStudents For Life: $15,500 · OtherOUR LADY OF PEACE RETREAT CENTER: $15,000 · OtherSociety of St Vincent De Paul: $14,300 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE GROTTO: $13,200 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $14,000 · Other+98 more: $272,360 · Other+98 moreCatholic Broadcasting Northwest Inc dba Mater Dei Radio: $25,000 · ReligionCatholic B…SCHOLA CANTUS ANGELORUM: $17,500 · ReligionSCHOLA CAN…SEMINARY TEA COMMITTEE: $7,010 · ReligionSEMINARY T…SOPHIA INSTITUTE: $3,500 · ReligionSOPHIA INS…MARY MOTHER OF GOD MISSION SOCIETY: $3,000 · Religion+2 more: $1,100 · ReligionTHE LABOURE SOCIETY INC: $30,500 · PhilanthropyTHE LABOU…MONKS OF NORCIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMONKS OF …+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyCLEAN WATER FOR HAITI: $30,000 · EnvironmentSTANDUPGIRLCOM FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesROAD TO HOPE ROAD 2 HOPE MATERNITY HOMES: $6,500 · Human ServicesCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $6,000 · Human ServicesOREGON TRAIL OF HOPE: $2,500 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $2,500 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $1,000 · Human ServicesGlobal Health Promise: $22,500 · HealthCOMPASSION CONNECT INC: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthOREGON RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14,110 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN: $2,500 · Civil RightsLIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Civil RightsPROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA: $1,500 · Civil RightsC-FAM INC: $1,500 · Civil Rights+2 more: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$386,280Religion$57,110Philanthropy$52,000Environment$30,000Human Services$29,000Health$24,200Civil Rights$22,110

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LABOURE SOCIETY INC: $30,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN WATER FOR HAITI: $30,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCatholic Broadcasting Northwest Inc dba Mater Dei Radio: $25,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetGlobal Health Promise: $22,500 over 6y, 59% of budgetNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONKS OF NORCIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON: $19,920 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOLA CANTUS ANGELORUM: $17,500 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetOREGON RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14,110 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTANDUPGIRLCOM FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $8,060 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT LUKE PRODUCTIONS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSEMINARY TEA COMMITTEE: $7,010 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetROAD TO HOPE ROAD 2 HOPE MATERNITY HOMES: $6,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOS NIOS PRIMERO INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST LUKE INSTITUTE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER & CHILD EDUCATION CENTER: $3,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMARY MOTHER OF GOD MISSION SOCIETY: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON TRAIL OF HOPE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLICS UNITED FOR LIFE: $2,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN RELIEF FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREV JIMS EDUCATION FUND: $1,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetPROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION CONNECT INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetC-FAM INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S RIGHTS WITHOUT FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIGNITE NW: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHESTERTON ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AID: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLICS UNITED FOR THE FAITH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN WATER FOR HAITI ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Broadcasting Northwest Inc dba Mater Dei Radio ↗
  • Who funds Global Health Promise ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MONKS OF NORCIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLA CANTUS ANGELORUM ↗
  • Who funds OREGON RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds STANDUPGIRLCOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT LUKE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds SEMINARY TEA COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds ROAD TO HOPE ROAD 2 HOPE MATERNITY HOMES ↗
  • Who funds CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Oregon Community …Gelco Charitable Foun…Catholic Community Fo…The Autzen FoundationThe Moran FoundationSacred Family Causes …Medical Teams Interna…Bp Lester & Regina Jo…The Salem FoundationThe Catholic Foundati…Maybelle Clark Macdon…
OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR26.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Gelco Charitable Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Autzen Foundation · The Moran Foundation · Sacred Family Causes Foundation · Medical Teams International · Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation · The Salem Foundation · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wolf Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wolf Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Northwest Family Services: 35% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services: 33% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Northwest Pilot Project: 6% of income from government
  • Northwest Housing Alternatives: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 133 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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